It's nice to see a city that refuses to be bulldozed by the NFL bully into destroying neighborhoods, floating bonds, and in general, bowing obsequence to a group that is becoming more and more noted for its crimes, lawlessness, and danger, than sport.

Beginning with his hardscrabble boyhood on a Texas farm, he has been irresistibly drawn to wealth and power and has managed, by an adroit mixture of dash and obsequence, to gain both.